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Art and culture from Florence, Italy, focusing on exhibitions, museums, artisans and more.
From Bill Armstrong’s Sibyls of Siena Cathedral to Philippe Halsman’s Jump! Photography in Motion in Volterra.
Read more about the Florence-born creative in the latest The Curators’ Quaderno from Calliope Arts and The Florentine Press.
Tracing the life of Edith Brooks Farnsworth, the accomplished American nephrologist who settled in Antella, Italy, after retiring in 1967.
Erii Nakajima reflects on community, culture and the making of Lailac in Florence.
Students, volunteers and local residents are helping to reintegrate collections of texts that lost their cataloguing references in the chaos of 1966.
Public invited to watch live conservation project from May 12.
Tracksuits, fascist propaganda and UFOs: two brothers whose modernism never resolved its contradictions.
The many lives of the woman who turned a family fortune into Italy's National Trust
An exhibition at Pistoia's Palazzo Buontalenti retraces the anti-modernist visionary's lengthy career.
Museums as people-powered places.
The delicate operation involved decoupling the artwork from the wall that has supported it for centuries.
In the new documentary "Saint in the city", discover the life and legacy of Florence's anti-fascist, diplomatic, multi-term mayor.
The French-born street artist reflects on vandalism, freedom, Florence, and why art can never be illegal.
To maintain the cultural heritage of artisans, The Sunny Artisan unearths Florence's hidden bottegas and shares them with the public.
Explore the abbey, arboretum, and historic resort town along the path of the old cogwheel railway, now revived as a scenic hiking trail.
New homes for a photographic legacy in Florence and Montecatini.
Behind the church San Pancrazio’s façade lies Leon Battista Alberti’s Tempietto, a marble vision of Jerusalem in Florence.
Honoring the life and legacy of Saint Francis of Assisi on the 800th anniversary of his death.
Mark Rothko’s awesome spaces for “the sacred in the secular world”
Writer, wife, mother and grandmother to a dynasty, Lucrezia Tornabuoni’s influence is often overlooked.
The beginning of the year feels fixed and universal, yet, in Florence, the new year did not begin until March 25.
From Venetian street stalls to the Medici bedrooms in Florence, Professor Jill Burke reveals a surprisingly modern world of cosmetics.
The filmmaker and Egyptologist presents his documentary "Nefertari: The Great Queen of Ancient Egypt" at the Firenze Archeo Film festival.
